Changelog PMC Africa Niger Tongo ArmA 3 Terrain

This is changelog for PMC Africa Niger Tongo ArmA 3 real world data terrain by PMC. All editing developments fixes with dates (if possible) are included. Our changelogs are simple copy pastes from our bugs/issues list, they do sound a bit odd but this is the way we do things, if you don't understand what some specific changelog entry means, contact us.

v0.1 Initial Release

2021-10-13:
- africa niger tongo choose location using google/maps terrain view
- africa niger tongo click map, pin is inserted, click the bottom center new dialog, copy paste lat/lon coordinates
- africa niger tongo global mapper online sources world street map
- africa niger tongo global mapper view -> zoom view -> zoom to spacing -> view spacing selection 50
- africa niger tongo global mapper CTRL-HOME insert coordinates, find the spot
- africa niger tongo global mapper switch to UTM projection
- africa niger tongo global mapper create user created feature grid
- africa niger tongo global mapper open online data -> worldwide data -> SRTM plus v3
- africa niger tongo global mapper export kmz
- africa niger tongo terra incognita map source -> openstreetmap -> zoom level 500km
- africa niger tongo terra incognita file -> load waypoints,tracks -> kmz
- africa niger tongo terra incognita full screen, zoom into kmz black rectangle, draw selection rectangle
- africa niger tongo terra incognita waypoints,tracks -> visible to disable kmz black rectangle
- africa niger tongo terra incognita map source -> esri arcgis, zoom level 17
- africa niger tongo global mapper export heightmap.asc
- africa niger tongo global mapper load landuse shapefile(s)
- africa niger tongo global mapper load natural shapefile(s)
- africa niger tongo global mapper load road shapefile
- africa niger tongo global mapper load places shapefile
- africa niger tongo global mapper crop the grid contents - areas
- africa niger tongo global mapper crop the grid contents - lines
- africa niger tongo global mapper crop the grid contents - points
- africa niger tongo global mapper change points shape layer to UTF-8
- africa niger tongo global mapper export - areas as cropped_areas
- africa niger tongo global mapper export - lines as cropped_roads
- africa niger tongo global mapper export - points as cropped_points
- africa niger tongo .asc save header info and calculate X/Y coords
- africa niger tongo global mapper assign layers.cfg colors to OSM areas
- africa niger tongo global mapper export satellite mask in 4 x 4 or 8 x 8 tiles depending on size
- africa niger tongo global mapper unload project, load cropped_roads.shp
- africa niger tongo global mapper tools -> configure -> projection -> UTM 31N (roads are now skewed)
- africa niger tongo global mapper double click layer cropped_roads.shp -> layer projection -> UTM 31N
- africa niger tongo global mapper zoom to layer (its now aligned properly and UTM 31N, non skewed)
- africa niger tongo global mapper layer cropped_roads.shp RMB -> shift -> shift layers a fixed distance
- africa niger tongo global mapper input correct offset fixed x/y distance coordinates
- africa niger tongo global mapper zoom to layer and if you have reference 200,000 / 0 heightmap, they are now both aligned
- africa niger tongo global mapper layer cropped_roads.shp edit ID/ORDER features
- africa niger tongo global mapper layer cropped_roads.shp export as roads.shp (its now ready for terrain builder/arma3)
- africa niger tongo global mapper separate transformed_areas into farmland, forest, meadow, orchard etc
- africa niger tongo OSM_Places_CSV2HPP convert places.csv to pmc_names.hpp
- africa niger tongo terra incognita satellite download arcgis 17 zoom level 0.8m/px
- africa niger tongo irfanview check terra incognita downloaded satellite images for black tiles
- africa niger tongo global mapper create map catalog for terra incognita oziexplorer map files
- africa niger tongo global mapper export preview-arcgis-17-level.png usually with 25 or 50 meter sampler
- africa niger tongo global mapper export satellite texture in 4 x 4 or 8 x 8 tiles depending on size
- africa niger tongo inspect sat_ png files for full ocean, coastline and clouds tiles
- africa niger tongo bat file darken satellite & create picturemap
- africa niger tongo bat file _run_imagemagick_l3dt_8192_texture_map.bat
- africa niger tongo get BPW files with _run_copy_BPW_ files_here.bat
2021-10-14:
- africa niger tongo terrain builder create project
- africa niger tongo move heightmap.asc and pmc_names.hpp into PROJECT\source\ directory
- africa niger tongo move picturemap and satellite.jpg into PROJECT\data\ directory
- africa niger tongo terrain builder import heightmap.asc, rebuild terrain and delete imported heightmap layer
- africa niger tongo terrain builder import satellite mask
- africa niger tongo terrain builder import satellite texture
- africa niger tongo add config.cpp lat/lon accurate location
- africa niger tongo copy _run_create_TemplateLibs_generic_CUP.bat from E:\ArmA3.Store\ to terrain builder source dir and run it
- africa niger tongo mod.cpp google/maps link
- africa niger tongo mod.cpp overall fact checks for satellite res, version number etc
- africa niger tongo terrain builder generate layers
- africa niger tongo export WRP
- africa niger tongo moveobject WRP
- africa niger tongo png2paa
- africa niger tongo wrp split
- africa niger tongo move PROJECT\data\ contents to _data\ dir
- africa niger tongo create pboProject .bat file with mod.cpp copying
- africa niger tongo create D:\ArmA3.WIP.Terrains\pmc_NAME\addons\
- africa niger tongo copy roads to _data\roads\roads.shp
- africa niger tongo config edit for class pmc_names.hpp
- africa niger tongo terrain builder load template libraries
- africa niger tongo rvmat repathing
- africa niger tongo pboproject!
2021-10-27:
- africa niger tongo objects missing, created 23,335 bushes/trees/rocks
- africa niger tongo lat/long coords missing
2021-11-11:
- africa niger tongo class names as tongo tongo twice, rename the southern one
- africa niger tongo Sat_Mask_ move _run_move_XCF_and_Sat_Mask_BMP_to_safety.bat
- africa niger tongo delete Sat_ files _run_delete_Sat_Mask_and_Tex_source_files.bat
- africa niger tongo delete BPW and backup PGW _run_delete_BPW_and_backup_PGW_files.bat
- africa niger tongo delete global mapper work files
2022-04-14:
- africa niger tongo update mod.cpp for google/maps and homepage links
2022-04-15:
- africa niger tongo forest gimp painting and image to mask thingy
- africa niger tongo terrain builder roads.shp import/export
- africa niger tongo verity forest shape areas are present, if not draw them
- africa niger tongo terrain processor generate vegetation objects
- africa niger tongo terrain builder import terrain processor generated objects
- africa niger tongo terrain processor heightmap smooth roads
- africa niger tongo binarization!
- africa niger tongo initial release

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